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Forget Everest parenting is a real challenge

There aren't many adventures Aubrey Hanson hasn't tried. But parenthood and domestic duties are definitely not for her. Then her twin nieces are orphaned and suddenly Aubrey needs those skills! There's one problemtheir gorgeous uncle, Dixon Carter.

Officially, he's their guardian and he wants Aubrey involved, just not in charge. Unofficially well, the spark that caused their almost night together still simmers. In fact, it's threatening to get out of control and disrupt raising the twins. Aubrey and Dixon can't keep the attraction a secret forever. So they need to figure out how to be together with kids!

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Dawn Atkins's Bio

Dawn knew she wanted to be an author since she put fat pencil to blue-lined paper. Though she always wanted to be an author, she wasn't sure she had the "stuff" to be published. She graduated from college with a teaching degree and taught elementary schoolsecond and third grades (the best)and then began freelance feature writing for newspapers and magazines, local and national. Eventually she left teaching and freelancing for full-time public relations jobs. In 2006, she left her day job to write full-time and hasn't looked back.

She met her husband, David, in 1980. They married in 1985, taking their Hobie catamaran to San Diego for their honeymoon. Dawn published two stories in True Love magazine in the early '80s. Getting brave, she wrote a sexy romance, which was promptly rejectedsniff. Busy with career changes, marriage and having a child, she set aside her plans to write novels until 1996, when she dug out that rejected book and rewrote it. Two years later, she sold the first of two short romantic comedies to Kensington Publishing. Then in 2000 she began her career writing sensual and funny romances for several Harlequin linesTemptation, Duets, Flipside and Blazewhich she now calls home, adding a dash of suspense to her latest releases.

She's won the Golden Quill for Best Sexy Romance and has been a several-times Romantic Times Reviewers Choice finalist for Best Blaze (twice) and Best Flipside, as well as a finalist for the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for "Best Love and Laughter."

Her hobbies include sailing, scuba diving, playing the piano (badly) and Zumba, her current obsession.

She lives in the Phoenix area with her husband and son and their butterscotch-and-white cat, whom they adopted when they realized the dog they wanted was really a cat.

She lives to hear from fans. Write her at dawn@dawnatkins.com or drop by her blog.